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I once was lost, but now am found.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
But by the grace of God I am what I am
Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.
I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.
Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.
My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.
Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.
A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.